Central European dissidents gained global fame by serving as key protagonists in the collapse of communism in 1989. As writers, philosophers, and artists, they should be remembered for their ideas as much as for their political actions. This book takes the variegated and collected dissident oeuvre and reads their texts as expressions of their existential search for inter-subjective understanding and mutual recognition, showing how their ideas contribute to current conversations in political philosophy about thinking and action.
Brinton examines the ways Cold War dissidents in Central and Eastern Europe turned to the past for inspiration in order to change and transcend their present entrapment, contributing to a more general narrative about how to change one's way of acting by altering one's way of thinking. Ideas such as 'living in truth,' the 'parallel polis,' creating 'civil society,' and 'anti-political politics' allowed dissidents to survive totalitarianism, recreate their intellectual universe, and re-humanize themselves amidst dehumanizing political situations.
According to the author, our conversations about the relationship between philosophy, politics, and dissidence can be deepened by examining this legacy.
View a guide of selected resources (PDF) on this topic available through the Libraries.
The Art of Anatheism
Edited by Richard Kearney
& Matthew Clemente
Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society
Edited by Rowena Fong
& James Lubben
& Richard Barth
The Technology Fallacy: How People Are the Real Key to Digital Transformation
by Gerald C. Kane
& Anh Nguyen Phillips, Jonathan R. Copulsky, & Garth R. Andrus
Lebanon's Jewish Community: Fragments of Lives Arrested
by Franck Salameh
Jesuit Philosophy on the Eve of Modernity
by Cristiano Casalini
Televising Restoration Spain
by Wan Sonya Tang
Various Articles
by Joseph F. Quinn, Ph.D
A Lily Blooms in Winter
by Alston Conley
Navigating Toward Adulthood: A Theology of Ministry with Adolescents
by Theresa O'Keefe
The History and Philosophy of Science: A Reader
by Daniel McKaughan
& Holly VandeWall
Motherhood across Borders: Immigrants and Their Children in Mexico and New York
by Dr. Gabrielle Oliveira
Redefining Retirement For Nurses; Finding Meaning In Retirement
by Patricia A. Tabloski
& Joanne Evans
Holy Spirit: Setting the World on Fire
Co-Edited by Richard Lennan
& Nancy Pineda-Madrid
Learn to Program using Swift for iOS Development
by John Gallaugher
Technology and Engagement: Making Technology Work for First-Generation College Students
by Heather T. Rowan-Kenyon
& Ana M. Martínez Alemán
& Mandy Savitz-Romer, PhD
Coercion: The Power to Hurt in International Politics
by Peter Krause
& Timothy Crawford
Why You Eat What You Eat
by Rachel Herz
Antique Coptic Textiles in McMullen Museum
by Nancy Netzer
Listening to Early Modern Catholicism: Perspectives from Musicology
Edited by Michael Noone
& Daniele V. Filippi
Nazi Law: From Nuremberg to Nuremberg
Edited by John J. Michalczyk
Academic–Practitioner Relationships: Developments, Complexities and Opportunities
by Jean M. Bartunek
& Jane McKenzie
Rebel Power: Why National Movements Compete, Fight, and Win
by Peter Krause
Father Blake on his life long involvement with Film Studies and his twenty-two years at Boston College
by Richard Blake S.J. Ph.D.
Written for Our Instruction: Theological and Spiritual Riches in Romans
by Thomas D. Stegman, S.J.
English Alliterative Verse: Poetic Tradition and Literary History
by Eric Weiskott
From Neither Here Not There
by Sammy Chong, S.J.
21st Century Corporate Citizenship: a Practical Guide to Delivering Value to Society and Your Business
by Katherine Valvoda Smith and Dave Stangis
